Lamentations 3:2 BSB

Original language & word study

6 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אוֹתִ֥י	'o.Ti	<obj.> me	H853 →
נָהַ֛ג	na.Hag	he has driven	H5090 →
וַיֹּלַ֖ךְ	vai.yo.Lakh	and he has made walk	H1980 →
חֹ֥שֶׁךְ	Cho.shekh	darkness	H2822 →
וְלֹא־	ve.lo'-	and not	H3808 →
אֽוֹר׃	'or	light	H216 →

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jude 1:6
And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day.
leads to
- 2 Peter 2:4
  For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;
- Matthew 25:41
  Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
- Ephesians 6:12
  For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this world’s darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
- Matthew 8:29
  “What do You want with us, Son of God?” they shouted. “Have You come here to torture us before the appointed time?”
- 2 Peter 2:9
  if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.
Through
Job 30:26
But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.
leads to
- Jeremiah 8:15
  We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.
- Jeremiah 14:19
  Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of…
- Job 3:25–26
  For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me.

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Isaiah 59:9Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.Job 30:26But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.Amos 5:18–20Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.Psalms 88:6You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.Lamentations 3:53–55They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.Jude 1:6And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day.Jeremiah 4:23I looked at the earth, and it was formless and void; I looked to the heavens, and they had no light.Jude 1:13They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.Deuteronomy 28:29and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to save you.Lamentations 2:1How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of His anger! He has cast the glory of Israel from heaven to earth. He has abandoned His footstool in the day of His anger.Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.Job 18:18He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.Isaiah 5:30In that day they will roar over it, like the roaring of the sea. If one looks over the land, he will see darkness and distress; even the light will be obscured by clouds.Job 22:11it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.Isaiah 50:10Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the voice of His Servant? Who among you walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD; let him lean on his God.

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